Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . ization of re-mote antiquity, these people could butmake a strong impression on the earliesthistorical developments of the with the Egyptian race wereseveral other branches of Hamites,but nearly all of them are obscuredwith doubt as to their origin and classi-fication. Such are the old Chaldaeans,who planted their empire on the LowerEuphrates as much as two thousandyears before our era; and such are
Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . ization of re-mote antiquity, these people could butmake a strong impression on the earliesthistorical developments of the with the Egyptian race wereseveral other branches of Hamites,but nearly all of them are obscuredwith doubt as to their origin and classi-fication. Such are the old Chaldaeans,who planted their empire on the LowerEuphrates as much as two thousandyears before our era; and such are theJoktanian Arabs of the south, borderingon the ocean, and such are several ofthe Canaanitish nations, with whom thegreater historical peoples came into eon-tact from the seventh to the third cen-tury B. C. Many historians have re-garded the Phoenicians, the Sidonians,and the Carthaginians as of Hamiticdescent, and it is highly probable thatsome of these peoples were at least com-posite in their ethnic origin. As a gen- eral fact, it appears that the Semitic andHamitic peoples of antiquity were lesscompletely separated from each othersinfluence, less perfectly differentiated. HAMITIC TYPE—THE EGYPTIAN by A. de into diverse types of race development,than any other two branches of theprimitive family of men. 4. The Altaian Races.—The great no-madic peoples having the highlands of 418 GREAT RACES OF 3TAXKTND. The Altaianraces; dissemi-nation of theTartars. the Altais as their original habitat havebeen designated by many terms, andthere is yet much cn fusinin their attempted classifi-cation. Even the majordivisions of these races arc not wellmade out. One of the broadest divisionsis the Tartar family, spreading to thenorth and east over a great part ofAsia. It is still in dispute whether ._«.»» ^21 m? m «s«8siese sens EsJ
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